I feel privileged to have worked on this darning book for Quickthorn, a new imprint for books about sustainability from Hawthorn Press. This is Japanese designer Hikaru Noguchi’s cult darning book, Darning: repair, make, mend, which is so good people have been buying the Japanese version just to look at the inspiring pictures. No need to do that when the English language edition is published on 1 Nov. We are also arranging some events to celebrate, including Celia Pym at Atelier Stroud and Darners in Conversation at Loop in Islington. At the time of writing this is already sold out, but you can console yourself by pre-ordering a copy of the book . You can even get 20% by signing up to the newsletter (and this doesn’t go out very often as I don’t get around to it, so you won’t get bombarded).

Celia Pym is coming to Stroud to celebrate the book for the Stroud Book Festival as part of their new Sustainable strand. It promises to be an enlightening day stitching with like-minded folk under Celia’s cheerful and patient eye.

Atelier Stroud are also hosting regular mending meet ups and a Repair Cafe, so there are plenty of opportunities to join in, share and learn. The next Monday eve mending session will be 28 October, 7-9pm. These are super casual and drop in. We’d love to see you.